Monday, 29 November 2021
Justin Podur is a Toronto-based writer and a writing fellow at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
You can find him on his website at podur.org. He teaches at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. He is the author of the novel Siegebreakers.
The Colombian military is creating so-called empty lands, apparently to safeguard against deforestation. But corporations, not wildlife, stand to benefit as natural resources are sold off.
Classical economics helped kill millions in the British empire’s famines – following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly.
The Oxfam sex scandal in Haiti is nothing new. International forces occupying Haiti are steeped in a culture of sexual entitlement towards the